feeling for

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Mr. Naiden, now a professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, gives us a vivid feeling for both the drudgery and the danger of life working on the subway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

So for me to be able to get it was a good feeling for everyone in that journey - that my family name can have that senior cap to it.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

"There's a Korean saying that describes it as 'like a blind person feeling for a doorknob'," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

"Tonight's performance was just an extension of the emotions that I've been feeling for the past year leading up to these Olympics," the two-time world champion told journalists.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

The subtlety and precision of the modeling, the fine gradation of planes and ridges, the feeling for the relationship of flesh and bone would be remarkable enough in themselves, quite apart from the early date.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson